The Swedish Family Medicine Residency at Cherry Hill is a full-spectrum, unopposed family medicine urban training program based in Seattle, W, that also offers a 1+2 rural training track in Port Angeles, Washington. Established in 1974, our program is one of the oldest pioneering programs in family medicine in the country. We are committed to recruiting and training both residents and faculty physicians from diverse backgrounds to provide evidence-based, community-centered primary care to improve the health and well-being of vulnerable populations. At its heart, our program has a mission and a longstanding tradition of training family doctors to work with underserved, economically disadvantaged, culturally diverse, and disenfranchised communities.
Our Mission
Our mission is to train physicians of diverse backgrounds to provide evidence-based, community-centered primary care to improve the health and well-being of vulnerable populations.
Our Clinics
We live out our mission through our six continuity clinics, which are all community health centers. The five Seattle sites are all urban clinics that predominantly serve patients of color.
Curriculum Highlights
Full Spectrum Family Medicine: We give our residents rigorous inpatient training because we believe that being a good inpatient physician makes you an even better outpatient physician. Our residency has its own adult inpatient medicine service run solely by our residents and faculty. Residents spend about 8 months on our family medicine service, caring for patients from all five of our Seattle clinics. Residents are also part of Swedish's labor and delivery team and can expect to deliver 65-200 babies during residency.
Longitudinal Curriculum: Anti-Racism, Behavioral Science, Community Medicine, Didactics, Geriatrics Training, Integrative Medicine, and Practice Management
Areas of Concentration: Addiction Medicine, Birth and Family Health, Global Health, HIV Medicine, Integrative Medicine, Palliative Care, Reproductive Health, Rural Medicine, Sports Medicine, and Teaching
Fellowships: Addiction Medicine and Sports Medicine